Opitcal printing experiments of a 16mm pornorgraphic film. The techniques on display appear similar to those used in JoAnn Elam’s work ” Lie Back and Enjoy It ” (F.2011-01-0280), but any connection between the two works remains obscure. The date of production is also unknown.
Children and parents alike laugh and play during a picnic on a sunny day in an unidentified park. Games played include wheelbarrow races, one-legged races, and volleyball. Based on the title, this film was likely made during a company picnic for the UnIted States Postal Service, for which JoAnn Elam worked for many years as
“Monterey ’80” documents a visit in 1980 by JoAnn Elam and her husband Joe Hendrix to the maple farm in Monterey, MA, owned and operated by Elam’s friend Bonner McAllester and her husband Joe Baker. Elam and McAllester were close friends since their time at Antioch College together, and this film is one of many
Filmed in extreme close-up, the lit-up pine needles of a Christmas tree are abstracted into forms of line and contrast. “Christmas Tree” then moves around the living room to focus on JoAnn Elam stringing popcorn, a playful dog, a tapestry on the wall, and a curly-haired man playing guitar. The date and location of production
A winter walk through snowy Palmer Square Park in Logan Square, Chicago, near JoAnn Elam’s home. Occasionally a small dog walks into frame.
Children and parents alike laugh and play during a picnic on a sunny day in an unidentified park. Games played include wheelbarrow races, one-legged races, and volleyball. Based on the title, this film was likely made during a company picnic for the UnIted States Postal Service, for which JoAnn Elam worked for many years as
Fireworks Test” appears to contain test footage for a variety of different goals in mind for JoAnn Elam. The first half matches the form and content of Elam’s later work ” Celebrated Royal Fireworks (Original), ” in which firework explosions are filmed in the night air and on a movie screen. The second half of
Abstract images of flames and fire. This film appears to be the original footage for JoAnn Elam’s film Firelight.
Abstract, direct animation consisting of triangular shapes that flow past the frame. The forms are similar to those found in ” Filmabuse,” and this film is likely a version of that one meant to be spliced to create a loop when projected.
Panning over curtains at varying speeds, the camera captures their texture and the effect of the light on their fabric at close range, until it becomes difficult to identify the object turned pure light and movement. This footage appears to be from a test or outtake of JoAnn Elam’s longer work I Can Almost See